Word: schemes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...billion appropriation measure, House-Senate conferees knocked out the $13 million needed to launch a National Teachers Corps -which Administration opponents had tried unsuccessfully to eliminate from the original higher-education bill. Also dropped in the Senate for this year was the Administration's controversial rent-subsidy scheme, whose funds had been denied by the House the week before...
...scheme Wilcox outlined would work this way: a student would take Ec 1 as his departmental course in the Social Sciences. After that, he could take for Gen Ed course credit only those upper-level Gen Ed courses that had Wilcox did not bar the possibility that these courses might add pre-requisites, but if they did, he "assumed" there would be a certain amount of change in their structure. Ec 1 as a pre-requisite...
...declared that the new proposal threatens to return the College to the kind of distribution scheme that prevailed in the 1940's when there was no General Education. Permitting departmental on the lower level contradicts the spirit of Gen Ed, he contended...
...robust six-footer, beginning to succumb to a follicle defoliation and a corpuscle accumulation, Coffin radiates a certain bon vivant, I'll-lick-any-man-in-the-house love of live. Whether charging long at full speed, cracking a joke, or intently explaining his latest scheme to some vaguely conspiratorial group, his leg slung over the side of the armchair, this exuberance oozes from...
...grander scale, the Los Angeles engineering firm of Ralph M. Parsons Co. has proposed a scheme to tap the vast water reserves of northern Canadian rivers. Called NAWAPA, for North American Water and Power Alliance, the project would channel the waters to the Canadian prairies, 33 U.S. states, and three states of northern Mexico, opening up in Mexico alone eight times as much irrigated land as in the Aswan Dam region. But NAWAPA would cost $60 billion to $100 billion and take more than 30 years to complete...